Saturday, September 18, 2010

Back in Business! First Side Cut!

A slight delay as we accumulated funds to continue forward in our teardrop build. Our next stage is drawing the radii for one side and a door and cutting out our first side! We're using birch plywood for the sides because we love the "woodie" look of vintage Benroy teardrops. Here's an example of one a marvelous local teardrop builder displayed at the Kansas Air Museum Car Show last weekend.


So, onto our build...once we had drawn each radius--front edge, upper door edge and back slope, we were ready to cut, or so we thought. We happened to look at the photo above and noticed the builder had made his door slightly larger than our design. Because we found his teardrop easy to enter and exit, we increased the width our door another six inches and changed the upper radius to match.

A cut to create the front radius, a cut to create the back-sloping edge of the galley and three cuts to create the door opening, and here's what we've created so far.


If you're wanting more detail about how we got to this point, we've posted our side design and cut photos below. Next up, we'll buy another piece of birch plywood and reverse the process, then it's on to creating oak stringers to support both them and the roof. What a blast!


























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